by dankeelan | Jul 12, 2022 | Featured, Leadership, STEM, U.S. Economy
More than 500 business, education and nonprofit leaders have teamed with Seattle-based computer education nonprofit Code.org to issue a call to state governments and education leaders to bring more computer science opportunities to K-12 students across the U.S. The...
by dankeelan | Jul 12, 2022 | Career, Climate
If you don’t understand climate change, you’re going to stand out in the business world. And not in a good way. Climate change is affecting everything from running an office, to managing supply chains, to investing. If you want to contribute...
by dankeelan | Jul 12, 2022 | Featured, Future of Work, Remote Work
Millennials and Gen Z, it may be time to reacquaint yourself with office attire and the daily commute: Your days of remote working could be numbered, according to one future of work author. As the workforce adapts to a “post-pandemic” landscape, it could...
by dankeelan | Jul 12, 2022 | Career, Gig Workers
It took a global pandemic to slow many of us down and make others reassess their entire lives. For Sarah Madden, a graphic designer based in Leeds, she realised she wanted to embrace freelance illustration and design full-time to explore a better lifestyle. Now, for...
by dankeelan | Jul 12, 2022 | Featured, Gig Workers, U.S. Economy
The pandemic recovery is winding down, and the Fed is trying to curb economic growth to fight inflation. Gig workers are an increasingly important part of the workforce — though their wage and employment numbers aren’t counted in the Labor Department’s survey of...
by dankeelan | Jul 5, 2022 | Cybersecurity, Remote Work
According to the FBI’s latest announcement on their Internet Crime Complaint Center, more and more companies have been reporting people applying to jobs using images, video, and recordings that have been manipulated to look like someone else. What is a deep...
by dankeelan | Jul 5, 2022 | Interview
Members of a popular internet forum rushed to the defense of one prospective employee who put an abrupt end to a contentious job interview. In a viral Reddit post published on r/AmITheA**hole, Redditor u/AnxiousSprinkles396 (otherwise referred to as the...
by dankeelan | Jul 5, 2022 | Veterans
A big win for local veteran Le Roy Torres after the Supreme Court ruled in his favor 5-4. It had been five years of fighting for Torres. Wednesday’s decision strengthens protections for state-employed veterans returning to the workforce after serving in the...
by dankeelan | Jul 5, 2022 | Featured, Leadership, Women
As women, we often learn—through experience or by others—that we need to temper our expectations. There is a certain flow to things, a set of experiences and a series of tests to pass before we’re qualified enough to reach the top. In the corporate world, we know it...
by dankeelan | Jul 5, 2022 | Benefits, Unemployment
As crypto crashes and tech layoffs make the news, the specter of unemployment may be haunting Americans again, although the unemployment rate has remained at 3.6% for the past few months, its lowest point since the start of the COVID-19...
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